Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-12-31
MIME. YTURBIDE AND SON.
A PATHETIC STORY OF MATERNAL
 ANGUISH AND REGRET.
4 Grandson of the Emperor Yturbide Adopted by MarimiliAn and Car IottA-A Mothers Tribula-
 tions-United at Last

The Yturbides, who have spent the best part of their lives in Washington, are heirs to the throne of Mexico The Emperor Au- gustin Yturbide had been an officer in the Spanish army when Mexico was a depend ency of Spain Having been cashiered for cruelty to prisoners, be revenged himself by heading the revolt which freed Mexico frorp the Spanish dominion This was in ls2l But being a man of powerful ambition as well as extraordinary powers, he managed to have himself proclaimed emperor of Mex ico Revolution followed, and on the lsth day of July, 1924, he was shot as traitor. The Mexican congress exiled bis fam fly, but, remembering Yturbide's services in freeing Mexican soil from the foreigner, settled a handsome annuity upon them The emperor's only son, Don Angel de Hturbide, was sent to the United States to be educated, and while a student at the Jesuit college at Georgetown he fell fin love with and married Miss Alice Green, e woman of spirit as well as beauty. They had one child, Augustin, who Is now 2l years old At the critical point m poor Maximilian's fortunes he thought rt would be a measure of conciliation toward the Mexicans if be were to offer to adopt the grandson of the Emperor Yturbide and make him heir to the throne
 The proposition was, therefore, conveyed to the family, who had been allowed to re- turn to Mexico. It was coupled with the promise of a large grant nh money to the Yturbides, which was, however, nothing but the payment of the pension due them Som the Mexican government, and also thst they should all leave Mexico at once. Dazzled by the brilliant prospect opening, as she thought, before her children, Mme Yturbide consented to the arrangement The young Auglstin, then not 8 years old, was to be treated Gs the child of hAIimilian and Carlotta, and Mme Yturbids felt that she was giving him up to another mother. The papers were signed and Mime Yturbide and her hurband set of for the United States
 ANGUISH AT THE SEPARATION
 But, from the moment she turned her steps away from her child, she was possessed with anguish at the separation Every hour her distress increased, and when she reached PueblA she haltei and wrote a pa thetic note to Marshal Bazaine, then in com mand, begging him in eloquent words to induce the emperor and empress to restore to her her child She could not await the marshAlis answer to Der letter at Puebls, which had been her intention, but seeing from her windows the diligence about to start for the City of Mexico, she ran down and hastily packing up @ few necessaries took her place in it for the city where her child was Immediately on reaching Mex ico she communicated with Marshal Ba- zaine, who behaved with great kindness to her, and through him she addressed touch ing letter to the Emperor Maximilian. To this letter a verbal answer was sent request ing that Mime. Yturbide come to the palace to confer with the emperor and empress At an appointed day a royal carriage was sent for her Mime. Yturbide, elegantly dressed in the Mexican fashion, with a mantilla over her head, entered it Instead of driv- ing to the palace they turned into a road leading out of the city. "The court, suppose, is at Chepultepec," said Mime Yturbide to the officer who accom- panied her. But she was soon undeceiveL It was the road to Puebla Adiligence met them MmeL Yturbide, on leaving the royal carriage, sat down on a rock on the roadside and refused to go further; but she was taken up by main force, put in the dili- gence, and taken to Puebla, where her hus- band, Don Angel de Yturbide, met her. But Nine Yturbide could do something else be- side write touching letters She found out that the arrangement she had entered into and so bitterly regretted had no legal force according to the Mexican laws. She inter ested Nr. Seward, then secretary of state. who made strong representations to the French government in Mime. Yturbides favor. The Empress Carlotta was on her last vidt to Paris, making her final desper- ate effort for assistance from the Emperor Napoleon. Mme. Yturbide went to Paris, where these two unhappy women had an interview The empress received her coldly, and tho interview was very unsatisfactory to Nina Yturbide.
 MOTHER AND SON UNITED.
 Meanwhile, MaximiIlan's fate was fast overriding him When he saw the catas- trophe was at hand he determined to save young Yturbide, and with the assistance of the archbishop of Mexico he conveyed word 10 Nine Yturbide that her child would be placed on a certain steamer reaching Havana at such date-and it was there Nine Ytur- bide was united to him after a separation of two years MaximiliAn and Carlotta had surrounded the young prince with all the elegancies of royalty, and be retained many of their royal gifts His father was then dead and his mother had sole charge of his education He was educated partly abroad and partly in this country.
 During her residence in Washington dur ing the last two years Mme Yturbide lived in fine house on the corner of Nineteenth and \ streets, but last October, her son be ing nearly 2i, she sold her house and re- turned with him to Mexico His intention was to enter the army at once, but by the advice of his Mexican friends be entered the national military. college for course of study before taking his commission He is . handsome young man, very quiet and pre- possessing His abilities can scarcely be judged so far, but he always conducted him self with great good sense. Mime. Yturbide is now with him in Mexico, but she has never wholly abandoned Washington as her home and Is still large property-owner hera Her family all reside here. She is a woman of much beauty of person and great dignity of manner, and in her long contest for her child she maintained the spirit and determination of a true American Wash